Bop till You Drop

Infobox Album
Name = Bop till You Drop
Type = studio
Artist = Ry Cooder


Released = 1979
Recorded =
Genre = Blues rock
Length = 39:56
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Ry Cooder
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifyxqe5ld0e~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/rycooder/albums/album/214251/review/5946907/bop_till_you_drop link]
Last album = "Jazz" (1978)
This album = "Bop till You Drop" (1979)
Next album = "The Long Riders" (1980)

"Bop till You Drop" is Ry Cooder's ninth album, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). This was the first major-label digitally recorded album. It was recorded on a 32-track machine built by the 3M CompanyFact|date=August 2007.

Track listing

#"Little Sister" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 3:49
#"Go Home, Girl" (Arthur Alexander) – 5:10
#"The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)" (Sidney Bailey) – 5:32
#"I Think It's Going to Work Out Fine" (Robert Lee McCoy, Sylvia McKinney) – 4:43
#"Down in Hollywood" (Cooder, Tim Drummond) – 4:14
#"Look at Granny Run Run" (Jerry Ragovoy, Mort Shuman) – 3:09
#"Trouble, You Can't Fool Me" (Frederick Knight, Aaron Varnell) – 4:55
#"Don't Mess Up a Good Thing" (Oliver Sain) – 4:08
#"I Can't Win" (L. Johnson, C. Knight, Richardson) – 4:16

Personnel

*Jimmy Adams – vocals, backing vocals
*David Alexander – photography
*Ronnie Barron – organ, guitar, keyboards
*Loyd Clifft – assistant engineer
*Ry Cooder – bass, guitar, mandolin, vocals, background vocals, producer
*Tim Drummond – bass
*Vicki Fortson – production coordination
*Cliff Givens – vocals, backing vocals
*Rev. Patrick Henderson – organ, keyboards
*Lee Herschberg – engineer
*Milt Holland – percussion, drums
*Bill Johnson – backing vocals
*Herman E. Johnson – vocals, backing vocals
*Jim Keltner – drums
*Chaka Khan – vocals
*Bobby King – vocals, backing vocals
*David Lindley – guitar, mandolin
*Randy Lorenzo – vocals, backing vocals
*Reggie McBride – bass
*George McFadden – vocals, backing vocals
*Simon Pico Payne – vocals
*Greg Prestopino – vocals, backing vocals
*Penny Ringwood – production coordination
*Mike Salisbury – design

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